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New Solutions for House Museums: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America's Historic Houses
Series: American Association for State and Local History
Co-published with: AASLH

By Donna Ann Harris

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AltaMira Press

List Price: $75.00
  Cloth 0-7591-1086-7 / 978-0-7591-1086-1
  Apr 2007 272pp

List Price: $27.95
  Paper 0-7591-1087-5 / 978-0-7591-1087-8
  Apr 2007 272pp
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"Harris's book is organized in a very clear fashion....At every step, the author displays an emphatic objectivity....Harris comes well positioned to write such a book....Donna Harris has done a great service for historic house museums and the people who are passionate about them."— September 5, 2008, The Public Historian
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A generational shift is occurring at historic house museums as board members and volunteers retire while few young people step forward to take their place. These landmarks are also plagued by serious deferred maintenance, and many have no endowment funds. What will happen to these sites in the next ten years, and what can be done to assure their continued preservation for generations to come? In New Solutions for House Museums Harris examines possible options and provides a decision-making methodology as well as a dozen case studies of house museums that have made a successful transition to a new owner or user.

About the Author
Donna Ann Harris has over twenty years of experience as an educator, program designer, and executive. She has worked in all levels of government and the non-profit sector in the historic preservation field. She has earned a Masters in Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.

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